A Place to Call Home

SYNOPSIS: The journeys of 4 different teenage refugees/immigrants, their escape, arrival and assimilation in the U.S.. Based on interviews conducted by the composer-librettist with teenage refugees from El Salvador, Iran, Cambodia and Angola, the opera is propelled forward by the choices and decisions each teenager has to make re: cultural identity, conformity, new language, new systems, new friends,
and their struggles to rebuild lives in a complex new world.

THEMES: Respect and understanding of different cultures; Adjusting to a new place.